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Thinking Through Television

Author : Ron Lembo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521585774
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Through Television written by Ron Lembo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original and engaging book investigates American television viewing habits as a distinct cultural form. Based on an empirical study of the day-to-day use of television by working people, it develops a unique theoretical approach integrating cultural sociology, post modernism and the literature of media effects to explore the way in which people give meaning to their viewing practices. While recognising the power of television, it also emphasises the importance of the social and political factors which affect the lives of individual viewers, showing how the interaction between the two can result in a disengagement with corporately produced culture at the same time as an appropriation of the images themselves into people's lives.

Thinking Through Television

Author : Lorenz Engell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789089647719
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Through Television written by Lorenz Engell and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Television is taken serious as an inspiration for philosophical concepts " Introducing a new understanding of the historical changing identity of the medium television " Opening new perspectives on TV's relevance in the contemporary, digital media landscape

Crafty TV Writing

Author : Alex Epstein
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1466807598
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Crafty TV Writing written by Alex Epstein and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A professional TV writer's real-world guide to getting paid to write great television "No need for me to ever write a book on TV writing. Alex Epstein has covered it all . . . along with a few things I wouldn't have thought of. Save yourself five years of rookie mistakes. Crafty TV Writing and talent are pretty much all you'll need to make it." —Ken Levine, writer/producer, MASH, Cheers, Frasier, The Simpsons, Wings, Becker Everyone watches television, and everyone has an opinion on what makes good TV. But, as Alex Epstein shows in this invaluable guide, writing for television is a highly specific craft that requires knowledge, skill, and more than a few insider's tricks. Epstein, a veteran TV writer and show creator himself, provides essential knowledge about the entire process of television writing, both for beginners and for professionals who want to go to the next level. Crafty TV Writing explains how to decode the hidden structure of a TV series. It describes the best ways to generate a hook, write an episode, create characters the audience will never tire of, construct entertaining dialogue, and use humor. It shows how to navigate the tough but rewarding television industry, from writing your first "spec" script, to getting hired to work on a show, to surviving—even thriving—if you get fired. And it illuminates how television writers think about the shows they're writing, whether they're working in comedy, drama, or "reality." Fresh, funny, and informed, Crafty TV Writing is the essential guide to writing for and flourishing in the world of television.

Thinking Through Television

Author : Lorenz Engell
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9048525624
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Through Television written by Lorenz Engell and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media philosophy can only be found and revealed in media themselves. The essays collected in this volume thus approach television as a medium both of thought and of action in its own right. Through its specific forms and practices, television implements and reflects on aspects of time, such as synchronicity and succession, seriality and event, history and memory. Additionally, television stages new forms of thinking causality and agency, subject-object relations, tactility, choice and other founding concepts of everyday experience as well as of outstanding philosophical relevance. In the course of media evolution, television organizes the transition from the analogue to the digital. Last not least, by conceiving of itself, television offers a source of finally thinking television.

On Television (Large Print 16pt)

Author : Pierre Bourdieu
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459604172
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)

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Book Synopsis On Television (Large Print 16pt) by : Pierre Bourdieu

Download or read book On Television (Large Print 16pt) written by Pierre Bourdieu and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-11-12 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Television exposes the invisible mechanisms of manipulation and censorship that determine what appears on the small screen. Bourdieu shows how the ratings game has transformed journalism - and hence politics - and even such seemingly removed fields as law' science' art' and philosophy. Bourdieu had long been concerned with the role of television in cultural and political life when he bypassed the political and commercial control of the television networks and addressed his country's viewers from the television station of the College de France. On Television' which expands on that lecture' not only describes the limiting and distorting effect of television on journalism and the world of ideas' but offers the blueprint for a counterattack.

What Were They Thinking?

Author : David Hofstede
Publisher : Watson-Guptill Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780823084418
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (844 download)

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Book Synopsis What Were They Thinking? by : David Hofstede

Download or read book What Were They Thinking? written by David Hofstede and published by Watson-Guptill Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TV is never short of bad ideas, as demonstrated in a guide to one hundred of television's most memorable blunders and bloopers, arranged in a count-down format and including information on each incident that seeks to answer the question of "Why did this happen?" Original.

Thinking Through Film

Author : Damian Cox
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444343823
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Through Film written by Damian Cox and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THINKING THROUGH FILM Thinking Through Film provides the best introduction available to the diverse relationships between film and philosophy. Clearly written and persuasively argued, it will benefit students of both film and philosophy. Thomas E. Wartenberg, Mount Holyoke College, author of Thinking on Screen: Film as Philosophy Cox and Levine’s admirable Thinking Through Film picks up where Philosophy Goes to the Movies left off, arguing that films not only do philosophy but, in some cases, do it better than philosophers! The result is a rich and rewarding examination of films – from metaphysical thought experiments, personal identity puzzles, to reflections on the meaning of life – that shows, in bracing, no-nonsense fashion, how popular cinema can do serious philosophy. —Robert Sinnerbrink, Macquarie University Thinking Through Film: Doing Philosophy, Watching Movies examines a broad range of philosophical issues though film, as well as issues about the nature of film itself. Using film as a means of philosophizing, it combines the experience of viewing films with the exploration of fundamental philosophical issues. It offers readers the opportunity to learn about philosophy and film together in an engaging way, and raises philosophical questions about films and the experience of films. Film is an extremely valuable way of exploring and discussing topics in philosophy. Readers are introduced to a broad range of philosophical issues though film, as well as to issues about the nature of film itself – a blend missing in most recent books on philosophy and film. Cox and Levine bring a critical eye to philosophical-film discussions throughout.

Television Entertainment

Author : Jonathan Gray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113525348X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Television Entertainment written by Jonathan Gray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Television entertainment rules supreme, one of the world’s most important disseminators of information, ideas, and amusement. More than a parade of little figures in a box, it is deeply embedded in everyday life, in how we think, what we think and care about, and who we think and care about it with. But is television entertainment art? Why do so many love it and so many hate or fear it? Does it offer a window to the world, or images of a fake world? How is it political and how does it address us as citizens? What powers does it hold, and what powers do we have over it? Or, for that matter, what is television these days, in an era of rapidly developing technologies, media platforms, and globalization? Written especially for students, Television Entertainment addresses these and other key questions that we regularly ask, or should ask. Jonathan Gray offers a lively and dynamic, thematically based overview with examples from recent and current television, including Lost, reality television, The Sopranos, The Simpsons, political satire, Grey’s Anatomy, The West Wing, soaps, and 24.

Thinking Through Digital Media

Author : D. Hudson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137433639
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Through Digital Media written by D. Hudson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places speculates on animation, documentary, experimental, interactive, and narrative media that probe human-machine performances, virtual migrations, global warming, structural inequality, and critical cartographies across Brazil, Canada, China, India, USA, and elsewhere.

Television and American Culture

Author : Jason Mittell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Television and American Culture written by Jason Mittell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Television and American Culture: An Overview introduces students to the study of television by looking at American television from a cultural perspective. The book is written for intermediate undergraduate and beginning graduate students for a range of television studies courses. Specifically, Mittell discusses television within the following contexts: the economics of the television industry, television's role within American democracy, the formal attributes of a variety of television genres, television as a site of gender and racial identity formation, television's role in everyday life, and the medium's technological and social impacts. The topical arrangement and comprehensive scope of the book differs from other television textbooks, arguing that we must incorporate a range of economic, political, aesthetic, and sociological perspectives to fully comprehend the medium of television.

Creating Television

Author : Robert Kubey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135694281
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Creating Television written by Robert Kubey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004-05-20 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Television brings television and its creators to life, presenting fascinating in-depth interviews with the creators of American TV. Having interviewed more than 100 television professionals over the course of his 15 years of research, Professor Robert Kubey presents here the 40 conversations that provide the most illuminating insights about the industry and the people working in it. These interviews bring television's creators to life, revealing their backgrounds, work, and thoughts about the audience and the television programs they create. Each interview tells a compelling tale of an individual's struggles and successes within a complex collaborative and highly commercial medium, offering readers rare insights on the human component in television's development. Featured in this volume are actors, agents, writers, directors, producers, and executives, representing television's earliest days through to the present day. Spanning shows from I Love Lucy and The Tonight Show through to Seinfeld, The Simpsons, and The Sopranos, these creators share the stories of how they gained entry to the industry and built their careers, offering readers a rare opportunity to meet, up close, the people involved in creating many of the most famous and successful programs in the medium's history, and linking the creators' personal histories to the television programs they create. With its unique insights on the people responsible for making television, this volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers in television history, sociology of culture, human creativity, television production, media studies, and mass media ethics. It will also be a popular reader for undergraduate and graduate students in courses addressing television, mass culture, media and society, American Studies, creativity, television history, and media ethics.

Utopian Television

Author : Michael Cramer
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452953953
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Utopian Television written by Michael Cramer and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Television has long been a symbol of social and cultural decay, yet many in postwar Europe saw it as the medium with the greatest potential to help build a new society and create a new form of audiovisual art. Utopian Television examines works of the great filmmakers Roberto Rossellini, Peter Watkins, and Jean-Luc Godard, all of whom looked to television as a promising new medium even while remaining critical of its existing practices. Utopian Television illustrates how each director imagined television’s improved or “utopian” version by drawing on elements that had come to characterize it by the early 1960s. Taking advantage of the public service model of Western European broadcasting, each used television to realize works that would never have been viable in the commercial cinema. All three directors likewise seized on television’s supposed affinity for information and its status as a “useful” medium, but attempted to join this utility with aesthetic experimentation, suggesting new ways to conceive of the relationship between aesthetics and information. As beautifully written as it is theoretically rigorous, Utopian Television turns to the writing of Fredric Jameson and Ernst Bloch in treating the three directors’ television experiments as enactments of “utopia as method.” In doing so it reveals the extent to which the medium inspired and shaped hopes not only of a better future but of better moving image art as well.

The Switch Image

Author : Lorenz Engell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501349295
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Switch Image written by Lorenz Engell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Television is the most powerful system of images in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Nonetheless, TV has attained only little philosophical attention so far, especially compared to other (visual) media such as film. This book looks at TV as what happens on the screen and beyond it; which is mainly the operation of switching images. It therefore proposes a new definition of TV as the first picture that can be switched on, off, and over, which stresses that TV is more tactile than visual. Through the operation of switching, TV figures the world from within and as the course of its figuration. This is grasped here by the term of “ontography”. Through the ongoing interlacing and bridging of “TV 1.0” (the image is being switched) and “TV 2.0” (the image is a switch), TV exponentially increases the production and circulation of images. It transforms the world and itself from an analogue state to a digital one and from central perspectivism to pluri-perspective. In terms of time, through switching and the switch, it develops and reworks new temporal orderings, such as instantaneity, synchronicity, flow, and seriality. TV makes its own history. In space, it creates a mediasphere as its habitat and hence new forms of being-in-the-world, of proximity and distance, and scale. Anthropologically, it works on what a subject and an object is, on what makes the human being, and ontographically, how it is possible that there is something at all instead of nothing: through switch-images.

Television as Digital Media

Author : James Bennett
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822349108
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Television as Digital Media written by James Bennett and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays that consider television as a digital media form and the aesthetic, cultural, and industrial changes that this shift has provoked.

New Television

Author : Martin Shuster
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022650395X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book New Television written by Martin Shuster and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worlds on screen: the ontology of television series and/as the ontology of film -- Storytelling and worldhood: the screen and us -- "This America, man": tragic reconciliation, television, and The Wire -- The gangster, boredom, and family: Weeds, natality, and new television -- "Boyd and I dug coal together": Justified, moral perfectionism, and the United States of America -- Conclusion

Thinking Through Sociality

Author : Vered Amit
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 178238586X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Through Sociality written by Vered Amit and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As issues and circumstances investigated by anthropologists are becoming ever more diverse, the need to address social affiliation in contemporary situations of mobility, urbanity, transnational connections, individuation, media, and capital flows, has never been greater. Thinking Through Sociality combines a review of classical theories with recent theoretical innovations across a wide range of issues, locales, situations and domains. In this book, an international group of contributors train attention on the concepts of disjuncture, field, social space, sociability, organizations and network, mid-range concepts that are “good to think with.” Neither too narrowly defined nor too sweeping, these concepts can be used to think through a myriad of ethnographic situations.

Seeing by Electricity

Author : Doron Galili
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478009225
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Seeing by Electricity written by Doron Galili and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Already in the late nineteenth century, electricians, physicists, and telegraph technicians dreamed of inventing televisual communication apparatuses that would “see” by electricity as a means of extending human perception. In Seeing by Electricity Doron Galili traces the early history of television, from fantastical image transmission devices initially imagined in the 1870s such as the Telectroscope, the Phantoscope, and the Distant Seer to the emergence of broadcast television in the 1930s. Galili examines how televisual technologies were understood in relation to film at different cultural moments—whether as a perfection of cinema, a threat to the Hollywood industry, or an alternative medium for avant-garde experimentation. Highlighting points of overlap and divergence in the histories of television and cinema, Galili demonstrates that the intermedial relationship between the two media did not start with their economic and institutional rivalry of the late 1940s but rather goes back to their very origins. In so doing, he brings film studies and television studies together in ways that advance contemporary debates in media theory.